Very good start, and to Jamie I’m guessing they are Steve Good’s compound cut pieces. They look the same as the set I’m making. I have almost one whole side done, just need 4 more pawns and the white set will be done.

Tbowen, just a little constructive criticism, hope you don’t mind. The slight waviness to your strait cuts can be reduced by slowing down. For example, in the pic below, the long strait cut that makes the body of the pawn each took me about 5-6 full minutes as I was cutting them very slowly (I go slow to the point it almost seems it’ll never get done lol). I also use a fine detail blade, mine are 28TPI (I get em at Lowes, so don’t kow there number (i.e. #7 blade, #5, etc), but they are small enough to fit through a starting hole drilled with a #62 drill bit). I hope you don’t take this as an insult to your work, you have a great start! I simply want to pass on tips I’ve learned from experience. My first few compound cuts were very wavy, as I had never scrolled through wood of that thickness. As you can see below, practice helps lol. I guarantee that each piece will come out better than the last!

Heres the pawn I cut last night. I decided last night I was going to start all over, I’ll give the pine pieces to my daughter (she always begs for em), and I’m going to cut the ‘black’ pieces from red oak and the ‘white’ from poplar.

‘Black’ Pawn(Approx 30-45 min to cut, and has 2 coats of gloss poly on it)